This will definitely lead to conference realignment!

(10-16-2015 09:10 AM)TerryD Wrote:  I have read all of the articles and will watch this story with great interest.

Agree with H1. The odds of alien life are very good, in my opinion.

This is either something that can easily be explained away or the biggest story/discovery in the history of mankind.

Time will tell. You can bet that all of the radio, optical and other telescopes will be zeroed in on this system.

Your right. These scientist are some of the top of the top, they are reluctant to go out on a limb and risk their reputations, but they way they are sounding, as if they're being painted into a corner to come to the ultimate conclusion, it's a alien artifact. Other words there is no other explanation. Why, I put it up here on the board? This story is to "BIG" to ignore even ABC NEWS has carried the story on their national news cast. Besides I know you guys and girls would enjoy this, because it has real meat on the bone. This a is not a Star rag story (little green alien visit earth), this is real main stream hard news story. CNN/ABC News/Washington Post etc. For it to go public, it's been vetted by scientist but more scrutiny will follow as it should for something this earth shaking.let's say it does turn out to be alien civilization, are we going to attempt to contact them? Steven Hawkins said we may not want to do that, using the historical reference to what happen to the native American's north and south when they came in contact with European civilization and we all know the ending chapter to that story

Well, until someone figures out how to send a message at a speed faster than light ... it's going to take a while to contact them.

That's another thing to think about, as well. The light that has these scientists so excited was captured in what, 2009? That light is from 1394 years ago ...

The structure could've been blown up for the last 1000 years, and we would have no idea.

(10-16-2015 09:26 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  This will definitely lead to conference realignment!

Nah- I hear this alien compound is a commuter school.

(10-16-2015 10:12 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 09:26 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  This will definitely lead to conference realignment!

Nah- I hear this alien compound is a commuter school.

Well, they don't have AAU status, that's for sure.

(10-16-2015 10:09 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  Well, until someone figures out how to send a message at a speed faster than light ... it's going to take a while to contact them.

That's another thing to think about, as well. The light that has these scientists so excited was captured in what, 2009? That light is from 1394 years ago ...

The structure could've been blown up for the last 1000 years, and we would have no idea.

Why in the heck would that even matter...it would still be the biggest event in human history.

(10-16-2015 04:46 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 10:09 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  Well, until someone figures out how to send a message at a speed faster than light ... it's going to take a while to contact them.

That's another thing to think about, as well. The light that has these scientists so excited was captured in what, 2009? That light is from 1394 years ago ...

The structure could've been blown up for the last 1000 years, and we would have no idea.

Why in the heck would that even matter...it would still be the biggest event in human history.

I didn't say it wouldn't be. But it does matter.

Explain why that would matter, at all.

If true (if), that would be direct evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

That fact would wipe all all prior cultural, historical and religious beliefs about the human race and its place in the cosmos.

It would change everything.

What would it matter if 1500 years ago something that existed for perhaps thousands of years "blew up"?

(10-16-2015 10:25 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 10:12 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 09:26 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  This will definitely lead to conference realignment!

Nah- I hear this alien compound is a commuter school.

Well, they don't have AAU status, that's for sure.

Well they should if it can harvest a sun's energy.

(10-16-2015 05:00 PM)TerryD Wrote:  Explain why that would matter, at all.

If true (if), that would be direct evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

That fact would wipe all all prior cultural, historical and religious beliefs about the human race and its place in the cosmos.

It would change everything.

What would it matter if 1500 years ago something that existed for perhaps thousands of years "blew up"?

So Notre Dame would cease being relevant is what you are saying?

(10-16-2015 05:10 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 05:00 PM)TerryD Wrote:  Explain why that would matter, at all.

If true (if), that would be direct evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

That fact would wipe all all prior cultural, historical and religious beliefs about the human race and its place in the cosmos.

It would change everything.

What would it matter if 1500 years ago something that existed for perhaps thousands of years "blew up"?

So Notre Dame would cease being relevant is what you are saying?

Sure, along with every other religion, nationalistic pride/"exceptionalism" and most every other human value system built up in a vacuum/isolation over multiple millennia.

We would then have to adapt to the fact that we are not that exceptional, but merely one race existing on a mediocre rock orbiting a mediocre star in a mediocre spiral arm of a mediocre galaxy, among thousands of galaxies and possibly many other civilizations.

That would be the game changer for humanity.

(10-16-2015 05:00 PM)TerryD Wrote:  Explain why that would matter, at all.

If true (if), that would be direct evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

That fact would wipe all all prior cultural, historical and religious beliefs about the human race and its place in the cosmos.

It would change everything.

What would it matter if 1500 years ago something that existed for perhaps thousands of years "blew up"?

It matters because a civilization that could build something like that could still die out or....be wiped out. It doesn't matter so much for the stage we are at right now but it sure as hell matters going forward in the future.

When you consider how quickly our technology has advanced, charted on a line graph it is an ever increasing angle that would appear to be going straight up when compared to the entirety of human history. There is no reason to believe that trend wont continue so when you try to imagine where WE will be 1500 years from now, you realize it is unimaginable.

So...what if a civilization as advanced as the one Scientists have "possibly" found needed to move on or is expanding through the Galaxy? Well, we know they are 1500 years more advanced than what we are seeing now and what we are seeing now is so far advanced to what we can do that we have no way of plotting just how much more advanced than us they are.

That is the kind of thought process that Hawking alludes to when he talks about we should be hoping that We havn't been discovered.

(10-16-2015 05:46 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 05:10 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 05:00 PM)TerryD Wrote:  Explain why that would matter, at all.

If true (if), that would be direct evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

That fact would wipe all all prior cultural, historical and religious beliefs about the human race and its place in the cosmos.

It would change everything.

What would it matter if 1500 years ago something that existed for perhaps thousands of years "blew up"?

So Notre Dame would cease being relevant is what you are saying?

Sure, along with every other religion, nationalistic pride/"exceptionalism" and most every other human value system built up in a vacuum/isolation over multiple millennia.

We would then have to adapt to the fact that we are not that exceptional, but merely one race existing on a mediocre rock orbiting a mediocre star in a mediocre spiral arm of a mediocre galaxy, among thousands of galaxies and possibly many other civilizations.

That would be the game changer for humanity.

Except for those of us that have believed that all along.


Of course, in 200 years, in the Global Football Division of the UCAA, Notre Dame will still be independent, and broadcast universally on UBC.

(10-16-2015 05:46 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 05:10 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 05:00 PM)TerryD Wrote:  Explain why that would matter, at all.

If true (if), that would be direct evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

That fact would wipe all all prior cultural, historical and religious beliefs about the human race and its place in the cosmos.

It would change everything.

What would it matter if 1500 years ago something that existed for perhaps thousands of years "blew up"?

So Notre Dame would cease being relevant is what you are saying?

Sure, along with every other religion, nationalistic pride/"exceptionalism" and most every other human value system built up in a vacuum/isolation over multiple millennia.

We would then have to adapt to the fact that we are not that exceptional, but merely one race existing on a mediocre rock orbiting a mediocre star in a mediocre spiral arm of a mediocre galaxy, among thousands of galaxies and possibly many other civilizations.

That would be the game changer for humanity.

Personally, I have already made that adaptation. Others are too. It won't be that big of a jump to make considering the Catholic Church has more Telescopes pointed up at space than any other Institution in the World. They know.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/pope-f...sm-119630/

(10-15-2015 08:30 PM)BIgCatonProwl Wrote:  We may be on the edge of new dawn in human civilization, scientist are working feverishly to determine if it is a product of an alien civilization

LINK
Alien Megastructure

(10-15-2015 10:18 PM)TerryD Wrote:  The article talks about a number of massive objects in that solar system that should not be there.

(10-16-2015 04:46 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(10-16-2015 10:09 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  Well, until someone figures out how to send a message at a speed faster than light ... it's going to take a while to contact them.

That's another thing to think about, as well. The light that has these scientists so excited was captured in what, 2009? That light is from 1394 years ago ...

The structure could've been blown up for the last 1000 years, and we would have no idea.

Why in the heck would that even matter...it would still be the biggest event in human history.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Did you notice heavens is plural?

(10-15-2015 08:30 PM)BIgCatonProwl Wrote:  We may be on the edge of new dawn in human civilization, scientist are working feverishly to determine if it is a product of an alien civilization

LINK
Alien Megastructure

Why can't it be a black hole / star dual system?

(10-16-2015 06:28 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Did you notice heavens is plural?

No, I just noticed that you quoted the bible.